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Ethics Watchdogs, Motives, and Georgia's Ethics Program Problem
... a handle on him. In other words, laziness. He has been an ethics and non-ethics watchdog in Georgia for many years, filing numerous ... Atlanta county that has been struggling with ethics reform after some serious ethics scandals. Gwinnett Ethics But the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 3 comments
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Ethics Commissions
... is the place to discuss the establishment and the role of an Ethics Commission. The most important issue here is an Ethics Commission's independence: how important it is and how best a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2009-06-09 06:02 - 5 comments
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Louisiana Ethics Reforms
... of this initiative and is supporting the following reform package in the 2007 session of the Legislature: Reform ... Reform Package Contact Your Legislator to Support LA Ethics 1 Read our White Paper for more information ...
donmc - 2007-04-28 14:07 - 0 comments
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Florida
... constitution was revised in 1968 to require that a code of ethics for all state employees and non-judicial officers prohibiting conflict ... the new legislation is as follows (excerpted from the actual bill): "Ethics is more than the avoidance of criminal behavior. It is a ...
donmc - 2012-01-23 10:28 - 1 comment
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Tennessee's Model Ethics Codes Fail to Create Local Ethics Programs
... been six years since I last wrote about local government ethics in Tennessee. In a January 2007 comment to the forum on recusal , I ... What is most harmful about the Tennessee approach to ethics reform is that the advisory services do not appear to have had any concept of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Houston Ethics Reform I: The Ethics Commission and What People Are Saying
... the Houston council passed a number of amendments to its ethics ordinance. They were billed as a big step forwards, but I do not agree. ... guidance here is very poor. An important aspect of ethics reform is to provide more clear guidance. At least state law requires that ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Book Excerpt 2: A Checklist of Ethics Commission Activities
... the most useful sections of my new book Local Government Ethics Programs . Summer is upon us, and most ethics commissions that do not ... make recommendations any time there is discussion of ethics reform in the legislative body or in the community. 4. Annual Report . ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Code ≠ Ethics Program
... can never be said too often that the quality of a government ethics code is meaningless. What matters is how the ethics program actually ... Codes Ethics Commissions/Administration Ethics Reform Bob Walsh (not verified) says: ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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Houston Ethics Reform II: The Ethics Provisions
... Body: There are several problems with Houston's new ethics provisions, in addition to what I pointed out in my last blog post. Some of them are typical, some of them are unusual. The ethics reform ordinance is attached; see below; the old ethics ordinance can be ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Bridging the Gulf Between Administrative and Government Ethics
... I have done a poor job in this blog covering administrative ethics, that is, the field of study involving the professional conduct ... The quotation refers to the most recent period of ethics reform as the "panoptic era," an era in which: public employees are "akin to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
